Astro Teller
Astro Teller
Astro Telleris an entrepreneur, scientist, and author, with expertise in the field of intelligent technology...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth29 May 1970
digital glass harmonize people physical time
The moonshot for Google Glass is to harmonize the physical and digital worlds. It is specifically to find a way to help people be naturally, elegantly situated, physical and digitally, at the same time.
bodies computing future lives second ways worn
I started my second company in 1999. BodyMedia was set up to take advantage of the future of wearables - sensors and computing worn on our bodies in any and all ways that could make our lives better.
aspire immediate individual means produce producing return
Our goal is not to produce immediate results. We've been tasked with producing long-term results. That means that there's more risk in any individual thing we take on. But we still aspire to a strong return on investment.
people unless worn
There's no point having something worn on your body - that's a big ask - unless you can give people something they really couldn't get otherwise. It has to be qualitatively better for it to be worn.
people
Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.
allowed encouraged explorer great somewhat
The great decision was the Explorer program. The thing we did not do well is that we allowed and somewhat encouraged too much exposure to the program.
great mix
Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.
access avoid becoming best goes health people
Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill.
focus google world
Google[x]'s Focus on the Physical World
answer built decade google great open problems question
There's this open question of what Google is going to be a decade or more from now. Google X isn't the only answer to that question, but it was built as a place to do some of the exploration to find some great new problems for Google to tackle.
technology google way
One of the missions of Google[x] is to use technology to get technology out of the way
mud oil takes
Find some fun way to get a little more oil on your hands or mud on your boots. Sometimes, that's what it takes to take down some of the really big problems.
surprising truth
Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.
car imagine meant people text
People text when they're meant to actually be driving. So imagine what they do when they think the car's got it under control.